COVID-19

LIHEAP and Utility Assistance Funding Status: Regular & Pandemic-Related Funding

This document, created by NEADA, outlines both regular and pandemic related funding for LIHEAP and other utility assistance that have been released or appropriated since the COVID-19 began. Appropriated funds that are pending release include $4.5 billion in additional funding for LIHEAP through...Read more

Impact of Covid-19 on the global energy sector

The energy sector is experiencing a huge blow due to the COVID-19 impacts in terms of delaying energy transition projects due to reduced supply chain regarding imports from foreign countries. Many countries have also initiated the delay for paying the utility bills and this has severely impacted...Read more

NEUAC LIHEAP and COVID19 Fact Sheet

This fact sheet was created by the National Energy & Utility Affordability Coalition (NEUAC) and provides an overview of how LIHEAP funding/funding formulas, program flexibility, and eligibility has been adjusted for the COVID19 pandemic. This fact sheet was published on April 9th, 2020, and...Read more

Report: Black households spend almost 50 percent more on utilities than white households

Echoing the topics of discussions in the headlines, this article talks about the impending end of state moratoria. Citing studies like the American Housing Survey, the article discusses disproportionate impacts felt by low-income communities as COVID-19 has compounded their already-precarious...Read more

As schools close due to the coronavirus, some U.S. students face a digital ‘homework gap’

Research shows that many students will be negatively affected because they do not have adequate access to high speed Internet.Read more

The Energy Rights Project Phone Survey Consent Form and Resource Packet

This PDF contains a copy of the consent script read to individuals surveyed in the Energy Rights Project's second round of surveying, which began in November 2020. It also contains a list of various energy assistance resources, both local to Philadelphia and national. The first page of the...Read more

Coronavirus 'collateral damage' hits U.S. rural power providers

This article discusses the hits that rural electric cooperatives are taking due to COVID19 and the curbed demand for energy on account of the closing of farms and small businesses that the cooperatives serve, and also due to unemployment and inability of residential customers to pay their bills...Read more

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